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February 8, 2016 9:15 PM Subscribe
On preview: poor framing.
Having watched this, they say this is less invasive, but it still needs to be placed in a blood vessel over the motor cortex. This isn't some magic sauce - and don't get me wrong, it's intriguing - but the notion that this will "cure paralysis" and when the focus we should have is creating an accessible society first (paralysis can occur because of many reasons) people need to think through the medical model of disability vs the social model of disability.
Yes, they don't need to saw the top of your head off, but then again, those solutions haven't been great either. Actual clinicians can sound off on this, but if a major blood vessel in and around the motor cortex has a device hanging out, what of clots that would otherwise pass through non-stroke-like?
This is maybe MeTa, but we need less framing like this around disability issues. FIXING PEOPLE isn't really a thing.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:17 PM on February 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
Having watched this, they say this is less invasive, but it still needs to be placed in a blood vessel over the motor cortex. This isn't some magic sauce - and don't get me wrong, it's intriguing - but the notion that this will "cure paralysis" and when the focus we should have is creating an accessible society first (paralysis can occur because of many reasons) people need to think through the medical model of disability vs the social model of disability.
Yes, they don't need to saw the top of your head off, but then again, those solutions haven't been great either. Actual clinicians can sound off on this, but if a major blood vessel in and around the motor cortex has a device hanging out, what of clots that would otherwise pass through non-stroke-like?
This is maybe MeTa, but we need less framing like this around disability issues. FIXING PEOPLE isn't really a thing.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:17 PM on February 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
Eh, the same could be said for cataracts. I'm strongly pro-accessibility, I won't attend inaccessable conventions. But I still think this is highly worthwhile research towards a desirable goal.
posted by happyroach at 1:31 AM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by happyroach at 1:31 AM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
My inner dystopian kinkster is disappointed.
posted by transitional procedures at 4:16 AM on February 9, 2016
posted by transitional procedures at 4:16 AM on February 9, 2016
That's "sudo bring me a cheese pizza".
posted by mr vino at 5:32 AM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by mr vino at 5:32 AM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
Disappointed dystopians might be cheered to know that Dr. José Delgado was pioneering brain implant research and mind control via electromagnetic radiation way back in the middle of the last century.
The most famous example of the stimoceiver in action occurred at a Cordoba bull breeding ranch. Delgado stepped into the ring with a bull which had had a stimoceiver implanted within its brain. The bull charged Delgado, who pressed a remote control button which caused the bull to stop its charge. Always one for theatrics, he taped this stunt and it can be seen today.[5] The region of the brain Delgado stimulated when he pressed the hand-held transmitter was the caudate nucleus. This region was chosen to be stimulated because the caudate nucleus is involved in controlling voluntary movements.[2] Delgado claimed that the stimulus caused the bull to lose its aggressive instinct.
posted by Lou Stuells at 6:34 AM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
The most famous example of the stimoceiver in action occurred at a Cordoba bull breeding ranch. Delgado stepped into the ring with a bull which had had a stimoceiver implanted within its brain. The bull charged Delgado, who pressed a remote control button which caused the bull to stop its charge. Always one for theatrics, he taped this stunt and it can be seen today.[5] The region of the brain Delgado stimulated when he pressed the hand-held transmitter was the caudate nucleus. This region was chosen to be stimulated because the caudate nucleus is involved in controlling voluntary movements.[2] Delgado claimed that the stimulus caused the bull to lose its aggressive instinct.
posted by Lou Stuells at 6:34 AM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
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